I got arrested once. The cops wanted names from me.  I gave them nothing.  I was already so outraged about my own arrest, there was no way I’d give them ANY more than the satisfaction they already had from nabbing me.

Fact: in most states, prostitution is a misdemeanor. That rarely means any jail time.  Just a fine.  Fact: in most states, pimping or pandering is a felony. A pimp, agent or madam IS looking at jail time. So the pimp, agent or madam is very highly motivated to turn in clients’ names in order to avoid jail, but the individual sex worker is not.

That’s just one more reason for my opposition to third-party management.

What a sickening disappointment!!!!! All she did was the same-old same-old: she interviewed the most accessible prostitutes in the country, the streetwalkers and brothel workers, so OF COURSE she saw mostly just the downside of the work, the pitiful junkies and women who are pimped or managed. OF COURSE such women aren’t happy, so OF COURSE Sawyer portrayed something seamy, sad, degrading, and ambivalent at best….WHY did she only speak to ONE courtesan???? WHY did she NOT go to www.independentescort.com, and approach the women there, or seek out the sex workers’ union that’s proliferating??? WHY THE SAME-OLD SAME-OLD???

ANYONE can go into the street and talk to the women out there. They’re so demoralized, they’ll talk to anyone…they hardly even care if they get arrested. And the Nevada brothel girls are easy to talk to because where they are it’s legal.

You call that INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING, Diane??? You call that DIGGING for the WHOLE TRUTH???

Shame on you.

Here’s a new addition to the intro to (the soon-to-be reprinted) Book Two, entitled Forward: A Sex Worker’s Lament. I composed it this morning:     

     But for now, it’s just another drab morning, just another day of clamorous finger-pointing, just another klatch of blogs full of ire. Two days ago Eliot Spitzer, the governor of New York, got caught patronizing an “escort.” People are enraged, calling for his resignation, and feeling sorry for his wife and teen-aged daughters.

     Well, it seems to me that if “escort” sex work were legal, there wouldn’t be much of a scandal. No one would have snooped on the governor’s digression, and few people would have cared. And if Spitzer himself weren’t so duplicitous, posing as a moralist and talking down prostitution, then once again, who would have cared? It’s hypocrisy that’s burying Spitzer, far more than the act itself.

      What will it take to make America see that it’s not the “escort service” that’s wrong, but the big deal that’s made of it? Maybe Spitzer’s wife is “standing by her man” because she understands this.

      It’s true that this man’s phony stance is appalling. It’s mildly redolent of those priests who preach abstinence, and are raping little boys out back. But the outcry with regard to the service Spitzer needed is making me want to yawn.     

     Catch them all and there goes the government.  

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     The world-famous prostitutes rights activist and author of Cop to Callgirl, Norma Jean Almodovar, emailed with me

today about the Spitzer scandal. She gave me permission to copy her email here:

I’ve been doing interviews nonstop since the scandal broke. And amazingly, I said the
same thing about the politicians and catching them all… I phrased it:

If all the politicians who had ever frequented a prostitute were forced to resign,

there would be no one left to run the government!

We can only hope that this dude is prosecuted for HIS crimes against
prostitutes- that he prosecuted them with such zeal and enthusiasm. May
he get whatever he dished out to the victims of his morality crusade!

It will be interesting to see who are the other clients of this
“Prostitution ring” were- if they get exposed by the government…

Best,
Norma Jean

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